RISC OS Users in and around Bristol will have their next opportunity to meet up for a drink and a chat on Wednesday, 12th July, when the user group for the area has their regular get together, at: The Hope and Anchor Pub, 38 Jacobs Wells Road, Bristol, BS8 1DR.
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Cyborg gets new implants, making it v2.20
Thankfully, though, that doesn’t turn it into a dodgy 1993 sequel1 Launched earlier this year at Wakefield by AMCOG Games, Cyborg is an arcade action game by Tony Bartram in which you take on the role of a cyborg treasure hunter, seeking out ancient treasure in Castle CyberDroid – and Tony has just pushed out Cyborg Second Edition, an update to the game that brings it up to version 2.20.
Read MoreJuly’s cloak and dagger meeting in Southampton
Venue a highly guarded secret, revealed only to those who know the code1 The Southampton RISC OS Users Group normally meets in the Itchen College Sports Centre, but there is a change of venue for their July meeting – to a top secret location, the actual address of which is a highly guarded secret1. Why is this? Perhaps it’s because someone from Southampton attended ROUGOL‘s June meeting, the subject of which was Cryptography and Security, and developed an unhealthy sense of paranoia as a result – after all, they really…
Read MoreNews nybble: Jan Vibe’s animated clock updated
Not content with revisiting some of Jan Vibe’s old graphics programs and turning them into videos on YouTube, Richard Ashbery has gone to work updating another program by the prolific Danish developer, whose many and varied graphical ditties appeared regularly in the pages of Acorn User. This time, it’s Jan’s animated clock, updated for modern hardware and (widescreen) displays. The program runs full screen, and presents the user with a clock face showing the time – updated each second, keeping it in line with the current time according to the…
Read MoreA medley of matters at Wakefield meeting – 5th July
The Wakefield RISC OS Computer Club will next be meeting on Wednesday 5th July, and has a mixture of topics planned. Starting off the mix will be Derek Barron, who will be demonstrating his 3D Molecule program, amongst other things. Peter Richmond will then take a look at StudioSound – an audio sequencing package originally released by Oregan Developments, and since updated by Henrik Pedersen. Peter will be using various sound samples to show off the features of the package.
Read MoreMidlands User Group at Recursion, 1st July
Recursion comes around again! The Midlands User Group normally meets on the third Saturday of odd months, but July is a particularly odd month because this year they’re meeting on the first Saturday instead. It used to be that the group hosted their own RISC OS show in early July, and treated that as their meeting for the month – and that’s more or less what they still do, with the exception that their show is now a small area within a much bigger event that covers a great deal…
Read MoreNews nybble: ROUGOL reminder – Cryptography and Security
A reminder has found its way into the RISCOSitory inbox about the next RISC OS User Group of London meeting, which takes place on Monday, 19th June, from around 7:45pm in the restaurant (upstairs) at The Blue-Eyed Maid, 173 Borough High Street, London, SE1 1HR. Full details of the meeting can be found in the previous announcement but, to sum up, the guest speaker will be Dr. Nat Queen of Birmingham University, who will be talking to the group on the hot topics of cryptography and security. The talk will…
Read MoreFont Directory Pro version 3.21 released
Following the release of a new version of Font Directory Pro in March, having taken over development of the product from LOOKsystems, Elesar Ltd has made available a maintenance update free of charge to those people using version 3.20 of the software. Font Directory Pro is a boon for those RISC OS users with a hefty font collection, being designed to make managing those fonts – and therefore finding the right one amongst them – much, much easier. The software is actually a suite of six applications – Fonts, Viewer,…
Read MoreNews nybble: Southampton meeting – June 13th
The Southampton RISC OS User Group will be holding their next meeting on Tuesday 13th June, from 7:00pm until 9:00pm, at: Itchen College Sports Centre, Deacon Road, Southampton. The meeting takes place in the College center, an open area with tables and chairs, next to the Sports Centre Reception, and the car park is accessed from Deacon Road opposite Whites Road. There is no entry fee, and visitors are welcome to bring along any hardware or software they wish to discuss with the group – and there should be at…
Read MoreRISCOScode down – but not out
The website may be gone, but the Twitter feed lives on! Some people may have noticed that the RISCOScode website has disappeared. During a brief discussion on comp.sys.acorn.misc, Chris Evans reported that the site’s owner, Martin Hansen, had made the decision to ‘retire’ the site in order to “free up time for other RISC OS projects.” However, that retirement isn’t all that it seems!
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